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We Have to Meet in Person to Be Moved by People’s Stories

Anthropology News

Solitary confinement is torture, as defined by the United Nations and many of the world’s human rights organizations. Another pair of us (Renita and Jen) initiated the Meeting Ethnography project back in 2013. Solitary confinement is one of the most obvious and ubiquitous state-sanctioned practices of carceral dehumanization.

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Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

Digital Promise

Connecting STEM with humanities doesn’t just provide the well-rounded education today’s employers want. So, separating and prioritizing STEM from humanities ignores the fact that we live in a complex social and cultural world.

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Latin American Solidarity in Changing Times  

Anthropology News

It was 2013, and I was on my first trip to Colombia. After my first trip to Colombia in 2013, I began to grapple with this question. Throughout the Cold War, campaigns of discreditation against capitalist alternatives flourished in the United States, and identity-based and human-rights-focused campaigns became more prominent.

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Dr. Kimberly A. Mealy Appointed as the Next Executive Director of the American Political Science Association

Political Science Now

Mealy has developed extensive external partnerships with leaders of other associations such as the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), where she has served on the Science and Human Rights Coalition Council since 2017.

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Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement

The Hechinger Report

The other two textbooks are “Mississippi: Portrait of an American State,” published in 1999, and “A Place Called Mississippi,” from 2013. I tried to use it as an opportunity for the students, to get them to care about history and about human rights around the world.”. It changed me as an individual,” she said. “I

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Civics U: What Form is Best, and What’s the Difference? Part 2 – Comparing Countries

Civics U

These systems will be reviewed by generally applying the rubrics of government power and elections; property and economics; and human rights. The United States Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor 2020 report on Russia’s human rights practices identifies a number of “significant human rights issues”.

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Some religious colleges forgo federal funding, staying free of civil rights rules

The Hechinger Report

Thirty-eight religiously affiliated institutions have received exemptions from Title IX, according to a list released by the Education Department under pressure from Democrats in Congress after the gay rights organization the Human Rights Campaign used public-records laws to help expose the practice.